Rajai Abukhalil

“If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them would start to disappear. And then I would disappear.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us

“Never complete. Never whole.
White skin and an African soul.”
― Michelle Frost

“إنه ذلك الطبع البغيض لدى الناس أن يعرفوا منك كل شيء على سبيل الفضول وهم يعرفون أنهم غير قادرين على مساعدتك.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, ضحكات كئيبة